Reading sam and bam files

Which library or program can be used to read and manipulate files with nucleotide sequence alignment, ex. .sam or .bam files.
Submitted by Magdalena Malenda on Mon, 11/28/2016 - 14:06
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Reading sam and bam files with SAM Tools

SAM Tools is very flexible framework, that provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments. This tool also allows to convert between different formats ex. .bam. It can be used from terminal or as a library. There are bindings to many popular languages: c++, python, java, perl ect.

Submitted by Magdalena Malenda on Mon, 11/28/2016 - 14:15

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